Apparatus for printing from individual record-plates.



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APPLICAUON FILED AUG.25. i914.

1,246,147. Patented Nov. 13, 911.

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C. OWENS. APPARATUS FOR PRINTING FROM iNDIA/IDUAL RECORD PLATES.

APPLICATION ,FILED AUG-25. 1914. 1,246,147. Patented Nov. 13, 1917.

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APPARATLJS FOR PRINTING FROM INDIVIDUALRECORD PLATES.

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APPARAIUS FOR PRINTING FROM INDIVIDUAL RECORD PLATES.

APPLICATION EILED AUG-25. 19x4. I 13 1917.

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APPARATUS mm mm mom INDIVIDUAL moan PLATES. APPLICATION FILED AUG-25,19L4. I

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. APPARATUS F OR PRINTING FROM INDIVIDUAL RECORD PLATES.

APPLICATION man AUG. 2;. 1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT orrio.

CHARLES OWENS, 0F CEHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, ASSIGN OR TO MONTAGUE MAILING MACHINERY (30., OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE,'A CORPORATION OF TENNESSEE.

APPARATUS FOR,PRINTING FROM INDIVIDUAL RECORD-PLATES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented NOV. 13, 1917.

Application fi1edAugnst25,1914. Seria1N0.858,546.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES OWENS, citizen of the United States, residing at Chat tanooga, Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Printing from Individual Record- Plates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to printing apparatus employing individual record plates which bear characters thereon from which the impressions are made, the plates being moved to the impression point or points from a hopper and then discharged from the macombination and arrangement'of parts hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the'drawings, J

Figure 1 is a front view of a machine embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view; I

Fig. 2 is a cross section of the table;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the table with its runway for the plates;

Fig. 3 is a view of the right hand end of Figs 1 and 2. V

Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the plate hopper;

Fig. 15 is a front View;

Fig.6 a plan view, and

Fig. 7 a sectional plan view of the hopper with the plate holding drawer in place;

Fig. 8 is a detail view;

Fig. 9 is a front sectional view of the mechanism for driving the plate feed for duplicating or triplicating;

Figs. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are views of details of Fig. 9;

Fig. 16 is a front sectional view of a part of the connection for feeding the sheets or forms; r

Fig. 17 is a view of the right hand end of Fig. 16 with some parts omitted;

Fig. 17" is a detail view of Fig. 17;. Fig; 18 shows views of auxiliary plate feed shuttle bar;

Fig. 19 shows the main shuttle bar; Figs. 20 and 21 are detail views;-

Figs. 22 and 23 show the printing plates in plan and section; and Figs. 24 and 25 show details; Fig. 26 is a view of the stacker chute;

parts added and some I printing is done from record plates f, Figs.

22, 23, carrying type embossed thereon. these plates being fed from a pile in the hopper l by ,a shuttle bar 5 carrying pivoted spring pressed feed dogs 6, Fig. 19, to engage the end edges of the plates as in Fig. 2 and feed them along the table to and past the printing points, said shuttle bar moving in a channel? Fig. 2 in. a table 8, which has achannel 8, Figs. 2 and. 2", in which the record plates 7 are guided and supported to receive the impact of the impression head. An inking ribbon not shown is directed over the record plates, and the sheets, strips or oth'erforms or matter to be printed .upon overlie this ribbon as is usual in addressing machines.

The hopper 1 is composed of front and rear standards 9, 10, to hold between them a tray or drawer 17 full of record plates in which drawer they are filed on the card in deX system, and from which the plates feed by gravity. These standardsare pivoted at 11 to swing away from each other, being held together by a latch 12, Fig. 4. A looking. pin 13 passing through the bracket 14. holds the standard 10 upright, and by detaching the catch 12 the standard 9 can be swung back to inclined osition to permit the drawer holding the pile or body of record plates to be placed in position, without spilling the pile of record plates, the tray having an open side or top. The. pins 15 act as stops against which the tails 16 of the standards hear when either is moved. The

drawer is shown in section at 17, Figs and 7, it having spring catches 18 at, both ends,

- one at each side to hold the plates in place.

be used. and moved step by step to the impression pads.

it is sometimes necessary to feed the record plates through the machine in a position reversed from their normal position. :For instance in printing envelops it is desirable to feed them with the flap toward the front of the machine, in which case the plates would be fed into the machine in one way, whereas in doing schedule work the plates would be fed in another position, and for this purpose the. drawer must be. placed in position against the standard 9 instead of in the standard 10. so that its top or open side will face rearwardly instead of forwardly, and Fig. 4 shows the drawer 17in this position.

For this purpose the pin 13 is removed from holding the standard 9 and is set to hold the standard 10. The. standard 9 is then swung forward into inclined position, and the drawer is inserted therein and then the standard 9 is closed and locked, the catches 18 at the lower end of the tray being pressed back in this act as above described to allow the plates to fall into the feeding plane. At the bottom of each standard there s shoulder or notch 20 upon which the low 1: edge 01": the drawer rests, Fig. 4t. In order to prevent this shoulder on the free or empty standard from obstructing the free fall of the plates, a frame 21, Figs. l and 8, is provided which fits against the standard and presents a flush surface down along which the top edges of the plates may move. This frame is shown in Fig. 4 resting against the standard 10, the tray 17 being held by the. other standard 9. Spring catche hold the frame 21 and drawer in position. 'When the drawer is held by the standard 10 the frame. 21 is shifted to rest on the shoulder of the standard 9 to pret a flush surface here for the edges of the printing or record plates. The top edge of the drawer in Fig. 4 is shown at 23, it

being understood that the drawer is now ting up on end. A few of the plates are shown in dotted lines 1 J t. their top edges resting against the frame 21.

The above mentioned hopper is not in itself my invention but I have devised a stacker chute. for use in combination with such hopper so that the. plates may be stacked in the same order and in the same position in the trays or drawers when they are discharged from the impression mechanism. For this purpose a chute 25 is used to receive the plates after being printed from and discharged from the table by the feed bar or shuttle. This is curved, Fig. 3, and has an annular flange 26 at its upper end held up against the table by a ring 27, Fig. l. allowiiig the chute to swivel so as to l.;tend either Forward or back and from the machine. l fhen turned into one position it will receive the record plates in normal position, and when turned in the opposite direction it will receive the plates which are being fed through the machine in reversed position but in either case when they are received by the chute the plates will be in proper position, 0., with the proper edge uppermost to'bc placed in one of the tiling drawers which is placed at the end of the chute to receive the plates therefrom. In other words, the receiving or stacker chute is adjusted forward or backward to correspond to whether the drawer of record plates is carried by one standard or the other of the hopper t in order that in either case the plates in stacking by gravity in the stacking chute will rest with their top edges uppermost for proper filing in the drawer.

T he stacker chute is held in either of its adjusted positions by a screw 27, Fig. 2, a second hole being provided in the flange 26 to receive this screw.

As shown in Fig.' 26 the stacker chute has a bracket or support 25 at its lower end for holding the tray which inclines downwardly in respect to the chutey'a suitable resistance block 25 is arranged to receive the plates and to afibrd sufiicient frictional resistance for ,the packing of the plates one close to the other. ance block moves down along the chute and into the tray in advance of the plates.

At 25*, F ig. l, is shown a packer to force the plates down into the stacker chute as they are discharged from the: table. This packer is operated through a lever 25 by any part of the machine such as the vertitically mo able rod 25" having an adjustable screw at its upper end to hit the lever 25 when the rod 25 rises.

The record or printing plates one of which is shown in Figs. 22 and 23, are fed along the channel 8 of the table by the dogs 6 of the reciprocating shuttle bar 5 working in the channel 7 in the table, and operated by a. link 29, Figs. 1 and 2, connected to a depending arm 30 on the shuttle bar, a lever 31. pivoted. at- 32 to the frame and having an arm l operated through a link 34 and an arm 35 fixed on the rock shaft 36, suppor ed in brackets 37.

The rock shaft 36 is divided at 38, Fig. 9, and one end 36 is oscillated by a channeled arm 3.) fixed thereon enga 'ed by a roller on the arm 40 of a bell cran lever, the other arm 41 of which is operated by a rod s12 driven from any suitable part of the machine. These arms 4-0, 41, are mounted on a pin 4?, and they are connected yieldingly by a. spring;- They have shoulders 4-5 and 46, Figs. 2% and 25, engaging each other so that when the arm 41 is moved in the arrow direction, 3, the arm e0 will turn the shaft section 36 in a direction the re- This resist verse of clockwise, the shoulders then transmitting the movement of arm 41 to arm 40,

but when the arm 41 is moved in a direction reverse of the arrow inFig. 3 the spring 44 will impart the movement of arm 41 to arm4U'under normal conditions, but should a record plate become jammed in the guideway 8, 8, the spring 44 will yield ,and prevent damage to the machine, it being understood that it is through the spring that the power is transmitted to the connections triplicate impressions must be taken from the same record plate, in which event it is necessary to keep the record plate at the printing point while the impression head is operated up and down for the desired number of times. 7

For this purpose a duplicating 0r triplieating connection isprovided betweenthe shaft sections 3.6, 36.

This consists of a clutch disk 45 fixed on the shaft section 36 to be engaged by a spring pawl 46 carried by a casing 47 pinned to the shaft section 36'.

The pawl 46 is controlled as to its engagement with the clutch disk by a cam 48 formed in one piece with toothed controllers 49, 50, having respectively four teeth and six teeth. These toothed controllers are engaged by .detents 51, 52, Figs. 2, 9, and 15, pivotally mounted on the fixed frame. The controller sleeve 48' carrying the cam 48 and. the toothed controllers 49 and 50 is operated by a friction clutch 53 under pressure of a spring 54, Figs. 9 and 10, said friction clutch being carried by a part 47 of the pawl casing 47. The pawl 46 is adapted to engage a notch 55 in the clutch disk, one side of said notch being higher than the other as shown at 55.

This clutch disk also has atooth 56 to be struck by one ,side of the pawl 46, the high point 55 striking the other side of the pawl. This tooth 56 enables the pawl. to effect the return movenu-nt of the. shuttle bar. The cam 48 has two low parts or notches 48 with high parts in between. hen the controller sleeve is set. by the operation of'its friction drive 53 and one of its detents 51 or 52 to bring its low part 48* under the pawl 46, this pawl can enter the notclr'55 and then the clutclpdisk 45' will partake of the oscillating oi" rotary reciprocating movoment'of the pawl 46 and its casing derived through the-rod 42, lever arms 40, 41, and channeled arm 39, and thus the shaft section 36 will be rotated first in one direction and then-the other to give the shuttle'bar 5 its. reciprocatingmovement for feeding the record plates step by step from the hopper 4 to the printing points under the impression pads 23. and thence-to the stacker chute 25.

The dropping of. the pawl 46 into the notch is governed by the cam 48 on which the pawl rides, and the. rotary posi tion of this cam is determined by the toothed controllers 4!), 50, the detents 51, 52, and the friction drive 53, the cam being rotated by the friction drive with the pawl 46 and its casing, but being arrested and set in position by that one of the detents which happens to be in operation.

The detents are controlled by a cam 57,

Fig. 13, on a shaft 58, Figs; 2 and 15, turned by a finger piece 5!), which is held in any position to which it may be adjusted by a spring detent 60, Figs. 1 and 9. By turning this cam 57 its high parts may be made to elevate either one or. both detents. The

high point a. will hold both detents out of.

operation. l'ligh point- I) will hold the triplicating detent out of operation when the operator desires to du-plicate,'and high point 0 will hold the duplicating detent 51 out of operation for triplicating with the detent 52. Suppose the shaft section 36 is constantly oscillated. Now when it moves clockwise in Fig. 3, the controller sleeve with its toothed controllers and its cam will be carried around with the shaft by the friction drive at 53 for the full stroke. Now, uponthe reverse movement, .supposing the duplicating detent is in action and therefore engaging the four toothed controller 49, the cam 48 will be displaced circumferentially. On the next forward and reverse stroke of the shaft 36' the sameactions will take place and the cam 48 will be again displaced another step, and thcrc fore one of its parts 495 will be brought under the pawl 46 and this will fall into the notch 55 of clutch disk 45, and therefore on the next forward stroke this pawl 46 will turn the clutch disk and operate the shaft bar 5. v

It will be seen from the that two rocking movements of the shaft 36"mnst take place before the low part of the cam 48 is brought beneath the pawl 46, and as the rockshaft 36 is timed to work in unison with tho reciprocations of the impression head, there will be a feed of record section 36 first in' one direction and then in the other to reciprocate the shuttle above, however," i

plates for each two impression movements.

of the said head, and consequently the record plate will remainunder the impression head during two impressions.

If the duplicating detent is thrown out of operation and the triplicating detent is thrown into work to engage the tooth controller. the cam lb will be displaced only 10 at each impression stroke, and conseuenlly a low part of the cam 48 will come beneath the pawl ill at each three impression strokes, thus permitting an address plate to remain 'at the printing point until three impressions are taken therefrom.

'When the cam portion a of disk 57 raises both of the detents, a feed oi record plates will take placat each reciprocation of the impression head. because the pawl eontr0ller cam 48 will not he displaced but will remain in position with its low part under the awl.

The term forms which will now be used refers to the strips or sheets of paper or other material to be printed. These may be public service bills. as gas or electric light bills, or a series of connected checks and a pay roll strip or any other strip or any other suitable sheet. as stock hook sheets, and for feeding these to the machine it isnecessary to provide a variable teed mechanism to feed a greater or less amount according to the positions occupied by the lines or forms on said sheet at which the impressions are to be made, or in making out pay checks, together with a pay roll sheet, it desirable to print the checks and also the pay roll sheet at the same time. It is necessary to print on the checks all the data necessary to appear thereon in different places, thus covering considerable surface, whereas for the pay roll, for instance. only the name of the payee and the amount need be printed covering much less surface. 'lheretore. in passing a sheet or strip of checks through the machine, together with a pay reil sheet side by side it is necessary that the feeding movements of the pay roll sheet or strip be much less than that of the sheet or strip of checks.

Feed mechanism is therefore provided ca pable of feeding a plurality of sheets through the machine side by side at the same time, and (a 'iable ah of adjustment to feed one of said strips a lesser amount than the other at each feeding action.

The feed means eoniprives two teed rolls 61, 62, above the table and spring-pressed companion rollers 63 below the table between which and the main rolls 1 and 2 the forms or sheets are fed in the direction of the arrow (Z in Fig. These feed rolls are on shafts (34, ($5, journaled in frame brackets (36, the two shafts meeting end to end and being supported also by the central bracket 69 supported on a rod or shaft 67. It will be seen that one feed roller is adjacent the left hand impression pad in Fig. l. and the other is adjacent the right hand impression pad to teed the sheets or strips passing under these pads.

These shafts (it and 65 are rotated through gears 69 thereon, Fig. 17, and gears 70 turning about the shaft 67 mounted in the tired end frames 71 of the machine. The gears 70 are moved step by step in the direction of the arrow 6, Figs. 3 and 17, one st p for each rising movement of the impr ssion head, so that the gears 69 will be turned to feed the forms or sheets to be printed on. For this purpose a clutch disk 72 is arranged in each gear 70, Figs. 16 and 17. having pockets with spring-pressed clutch rolls 73 therein to bear on a Wear ring T l tightly fitted into the gear. The clutch disk is keyed to a sleeve 75 loosely mounted on the shaft 67 and fixed to a lever the, arm 76 of which is pulled upon by a spring 7'? coir nected to the fixed frame bracket (8. The other arm 79 of the lever extends in an open ing or slot 80, Fig. 17*, in the micrometer rod 81, which is carried in a bushing 82 fixed to the impression bar 1. This rod has a cap ,or nut 83 swiveled on its upper end and scrcw-tln'eaded onto the upper end of the bushing The lever 76 79 bears on a roller S-l in the fork of the micrometer rod. It will now be seen that when the impression bar 1 rises the micrometer rod will lift the arm 79 of the lever and through said lever and clutch disk 72 the gear 70 will be turned, thus giving the feeding movement to the paper feed roll or disk 61 or 62, as the case may be. Now, when the impression bar or head goes down, the spring 7? will turn the lever 76 and the clutch disk 72 will turn back for a. new hold. In this action the gear 70 and consequently the feed disk or roll 61 or (r2 will be held against movement, and for this purpose another clutch disk 72 is arranged in. each gear 70 having pockets and clutch rolls to grip the interior of the 70, and this clutch or detent disk is keyed on another sleeve 7 5, this remaiiiing in fixed position during the time the other disk 72 is being operated back and forth by the rising and falling of the impression head. The sleeve 75 carrying the normally stationary clutch or detent disk 72 is pinned to the hand lever 85 having a pivoted locking lever 86 operating a pin 87 which engages the fixed frame part 7].. Figs. 1. Q. 3 and By pressing the locking lever 86 to withdraw the locking pin 87, the handle 833' may be turned and thus through the sleeve 75 and clutch disk 712 the gear 70 may be turned to move the feed rolls. and thus teed the terms or paper sheets by hand as may be desired. During this hand feeding the clutch disk 72 will act as the detent to prevent retrograde movement oi the paper feed roll when the handle is turned back for beginning a new feeding action. It will be understood that the shalt 7 when operated by hand as just described will operate both teed rolls 1 aml G2.

The amount of movement of the hand le-- or is limited by a pin 88 on the sleeve strik- J13 g a stop pin 89 on the collar 90 fixed to the frame 71. I

The amount of movement imparted to the feed rolls from the regular stroke of the im pression head depends upon the adjustment vertically of the micrometer rods 81, it being understood that there is one of these rods at each end of the impression bar, and also one set of clutches 72, 72, gears 69 and 70 at each end of said'bar; in .other Words, there is a set of the driving mechanism such as just described for each of the paper feed rolls 61, 62, excepting as to the hand feed lever, of which only one is needed for both feed rolls. I j

One feed roll may be made to perform a greater feeding movement than the other by adjusting its micrometer rod vertically to cause the rod'to move itsjlever-76-79 I through a greater arc, and in this way one feed roll may be made to perform a long feed for dividend or employerspay checks while the other feed roller may simultaneously perform a shorter feed for a pay roll, auditing or listing slip. By adjusting the micrometer rod vertically the initial point of contact of the roller 84 with the lever 76-49 may be made nearer to or farther away from the fulcrum of said lever, and thus more or less movement will be imparted to the lever from an upward movement of the micrometer rod. The spring pressed rollers may be lowered for the insertion of the paper by rods 63 having cam-shaped ends 63 engaging the brackets of the rollers.

Means are provided whereby certain of the matter on the record plates may be prevented from being printed; for instance, in

printing the pay roll, only a part of the data contained on the lates will be printed ofi', While for printing checks when the plates are moved to the printing point where the checks are fed, all of the matter on the printing plates is printed. For this purpose one of the impression pads 3 may be cut away as at Fig. 28, to make an impression by the remaining part as from only a part of the printing-plate, for instance, to print the pay roll, whereas the other, impression pad may have its surface of suflicient extent to print from the entire surface of the embossed typeon the print- 1 ing plate.

In printing some formslikepublic service bills, as gas or electric lightbills having a couporr attached, it is necessary to print the same data. on different. parts of the same bill,'and therefore the record or printing plates must be spaced apart on the shuttle bar so that one plate will make, say, two or three impressions by being moved into position under, say, two or three impression 1 pads in succession, before the next plate is moved under the first one of these mpression pads. In other words, it' would be necessary to have some of the dogs empty instead of having a plate at each dog. The impression pads are adjustable lengthwise of the impression bar 1, so that they may be set in any desired relation to suit the bill or form to be printed on. For getting the proper spacing of the plates on the feeder or shuttle bar, a lifting rod 91 is provided at the hopper 1 which, when raised, Will lift the pile of plates in the said hopper, so that the shuttle bar will not engage and feed the lowermost plate, and in this way some of the dogs are left empty. The lifting rod 91 may be operated at every other feeding action of the shuttle bar' so that every other dog on said shuttle bar will be empty, or the lifting rod may be so opera-ted that only at every third action or fourth action of the shuttle bar will a plate be taken thereby to be fed to the printing point. The lifting rod is normally pressedto be taken and fed by the dog from the hopper toward the impression point, whereas when the lifting rod is supported by the high part or edge of the cam the pile of plates will be held up and the lowermost plate will be missed by the feed dog of the shuttle bar Thecam 94 is on a shaft 96 which also has a ratchet wheel 97 engaged by a pawl 98'on an arm 99 pivoting about the shaft 96 and operated by a link 100,

bell crank 101. and link 102 from the reciprocating rod 2. When the link is'connected to the arm 99 by the uppermost hole shown in Fig. 1, the maximum movement".v will be imparted to the cam'94c which will bring one of the notches 95in the cam bcneath the lifting rod 91 at every second throw of the lever, or in other Words, at

every second downward movement of the impression head. When the link is connected with the intermediate hole of the arm 99 it requires three operations of the reciprocating rod 2 to'bring the depression of the cam beneath the lifting rod, and when the link is connected with the lower most opening four actions of the impression head are required before the lifting rod 91 will be lowered to bring the lowermost plate into range of the plate feeder. The ratchet 2 wheel will have its teeth so disposed as to get the movements desired; the movements above mentioned are referred to by Way of example. In order to feed the plates to correspond with specially ruled or designed sheets or I forms, it may be necessary at times to give the plates an additional movement beyond that given by the main shuttle bar, and for rock ,sha ft -13.

provided which also has a spring dog and moves in a channel in the table, this dog engaging the end of the plate at its front depressed margin to give it an additional movement, it being understood that the main shuttle bar 5 engages the record plate at its rear depressed margin, as shown in Fig. 2". The eXtra shuttle bar is operated by a link 10%, lever 105, link 106, and the The extra shuttle bar moves forward during the first part of the downward motion of the impression head. It is used only when the printing plate is to be moved to a position which the main shuttle bar will not accomplish. The extra shuttle bar may be removed. or disconnected to be put out of operation when forms are being printed to which the main shuttle bar is suited. An advantage arises from the use of a reciprocating shuttle bar having spring dogs, as the means for feeding the printing plates, because the dogs will yield so that a plate may be pushed over them, and the dogs will yield also when the shuttle bars retract.

It will be seen from the above that the machine is capable of doing various classes of work from address or record plates and with the same organization, the feed mechanism for the plates, and for the forms or sheets, and the impression head all remaining the same but susceptible of adjustment to meet the various conditions of work.

Reverting to the means for operating the impression bar 1 through the rods 2, these rods are connected together by a cross piece at their lower ends to which a link 2* is connected, Fig. 3, this link being connected to an arm 9, Figs. 3 and 25, which arm is on a collar loose on the shaft 43 and having a pin 71 engaged by a pawl pivoted to the arm 41 so that as the arm swings in the arrow direction the pawl, acting on the pin, will turn the collar and arm g. lVhen the arm 41 swings the other way a projection -11", Fig. 25, thereon bears on the pin, and through arm g and link 2* the impression bar is raised.

I claim 1. In combination with record plates, impression means for making impressions therefrom, a frame, having a bearing for a stacker chute. feed means for feeding the record plates to and discharging them from the impression point, and a stacker chute movable in said bearing and thereby being adjustable into a plurality of positions while maintaining its connection with the frame to stack the plates one way whether fed through the machine in one position or in a position reversed in respect thereto, substantially as described.

2. In combination with record plates, im-

a issa? in a position reversed thereto, substantially as described.

3. In combination with record plates, impression means for making impressions therefrom, a table, feed means For 'leeding the record plates along the table to and discharging them from the impression point on said table, and a stacker chute attached to the table to receive the plates after lean ing the impression point, said chute having its main portion extending laterally from its attached end and being adjustable to posi tion said lateral main portion at right. angles to the plane in which the plates more and either to the front or to the rear oi the said plane of travel of the plates through the machine to receive said plates either in one position or in a reversed. position and stack them one way, substantially as described.

4:. In combination with record plates, impression means for making impressions therefrom, a table, feed mean-s for feeding the record plate. long the table to and discharging them from the impression point, and a stacker chute having a swivel support at its upper end with its main portion tending laterally therefrom enabling the chute to be turned to position said lateral main portion at right angles to the plane in which the plates move, and either forward or backward of the line of travel of the plates through the machine to receive. the plates either in one position or in a reversed position and stack them one way, substan tially as described.

5. In combination with a hopper to receive the record plates, having upstanding front and rear sides, each pivotally mounted to be swung toward and from the other side to receive and hold a tray of record plates either in normal or in reversed position, impression means to feed the record plates individually from the hopper to the impression points and to discharge the plates away therefrom, and a stacker chute to receive the plates, said chute being adjustable to receive the plates as fed either in normal or in reversed position and to stack the same one way, substantially as described.

6. In combination, a reciprocating impression head, a hopper, table having a. runway for record plates, a shuttle bar reciprocating along the runway, 23. pivotally mounted oscillating member connected to said. shuttle bar for reciprocating the same, a pivotally mounted oscillating driving member for the oscillating member .first mentioned. means for giving regularly timed oscillations to said driving member, a clutch connection between the two members and a controller for rendering the clutch effective for operating the first mentioned oscilin regular time corresponding to the strokes' of the impression head, a clutch connection between the oscillating members. a controller for the clutch having rotary step by step movement about the axis of the oscillating members and a detent mounted on the frame to engage said controller and rotate it step by step as the. said second oscillating memher is operated, and moves said controller substantially as described.

8. In combination in printing apparatus.

an impression head. a hopper. a table having a runway for record plates. a shuttle bar reciprocating along the runway, an oscillating member, a shaft carrying the same. connections between said oscillating member and the shuttle bar. a second oscillating member.

a shaft carrying the same arranged coaxially with the first shaft. a clutch connection between the oscillating members, a controller arranged to turn step by step in one dircc'tion about the first shaft. a friction drive between said controller and the second oscillatmg member, a toothed member on sa d controller and a detent on the frame to engage said toothed member. with means for setting the detent to operate the controller,

substantially as described.

Incombination, record plates having depressed margins along opposite sides thereof. reciprocating impression means. a hopper for said record plates. a table having a runway along which the record plates are moved to the impression point and dis charged therefrom. a feeder for moving the record plates along said runway by engaging one depressed margin of the plates, a

supplemental feeder engaging the other depressed margin of the plate for givmg the record platesan additional movement beyondthat given by the main feeder. and means for operating the feeders, substantially as described.

.10, In combination. reciprocating impression means, a hopper for record plates, a table having a runway for said plates, a

shuttle shuttle bar having feed dogs and r'ecipro-- eating along the runway, and a supplemental shuttle bar with means for reciprocating the same along the runway to give the record plates a movement heyondthat given by the main shuttle bar, substantially as described.

11. In combination, a reciprocating impress-ion head, a hopper for record plates, at

table ha\ 'l11g a runway for record plates,-a feeder for record plates conslsting of a shuttle bar reciprocating along the runway,'.

a rock shaft, an arm on the .rockshaft for rocking it. an arm loose on the rock shaft with connections to the impression head, a

pawl connection between the two arms, a second arm loose on the rock shaft. a spring connection between the same and the first arm to allow the said second loose arm to yield if a plate becomes jammed in the runway. connections operated back and forth by the said second arm for reciprocating the bar for feeding the plates and means in said the function of the reciprocating shuttle bar to permit a plurality of impressions to be made from the same plate, substantially as described.

12. In combination. a reciprocating im-- pression head, a table having a runway for record plates. a shuttle bar reciprocating along the runway, a hopper fromwhich the shuttle bar feeds the record plates, a connection 'for operating the impression head and .the shuttle bar including a yielding member to yield on the forward stroke in case a plate becomes jammed in the runway, said connection including means for eliminating the function of the shuttle bar to-permit a plurality of impressions to be made from the sameplate, substantially as described.

13. In combination record plates, reciproconnection for at times eliminating eating impression means to ma-keimpressions therefrom. a hopper for record plates, at table having a runway along which the record plates are moved to the impression point and discharged therefrom. a shuttle bar having feed dogs and reciprocating along the run way to feed the plates step by step, and the same amount at each step. and a supplemental feeder for giving the'platcs anadditional movement in respect to that given by the shuttle bar so that the plates. will occnpyposilitms intermediate of those derived from the shuttle bar. substantially as described.

14. In combination a table having arunway-for record plates. a hopper. aslmttle bar operating along said runwayfor feeding the record plates. impression means operating over the runWay..-and' to and past which the shuttle bar moves the mg horizontally, a member connecting said bell crank Withthe shuttle bar, and-a link plates. a bell crank H 4 lcver pivoted beneath the'table and -operat-" extending; trnnsx ersely 0f the plane of move nient 0f. the little war with means for opersting said link. including means for eliminating the innetinn n't' said link at times to allow the slinttle hnr tn remain at rest for making a ilnralily m inipi'c sinus from the same plate. i

15. In con'ih nntlen imnr sinn means, a table having a rmlwn) for individual printing plates, :1 reciprnealin; n'lembel' operating lengthwise oi the runway for feeding the printing plates'tx; the impression means, a bell crank pivoted beneath the table and operating horizontally, a member connecting said hell crank with the said reciprocating geese? member, and means for operating the bell crank including; a link extending in a plane transversely of the plane of movement. of the reciprocating member and includingalso means for eliminating, at times, the function of said link to allow the reciprocating memberto remain at rest for making a plurality of impressions from the same plate, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES ()lVllhlS. Witnesses Annie A. STONE, O. I. Cams. 

